Before asking
you about your book marketing efforts, I want to share your comment about your new memoir.
If you tell your family and friends
about your book marketing efforts, you may find they even offer to help you!
Not exact matches
Trident will also make recommendations to our clients on how they can think
about improving their social media presence and look to online
efforts to
market / promote their
books.
We've been writing
about video
book trailers and our own experiences creating videos as part of our
book marketing and platform building
efforts.
As an author, I published my
book about a month ago and am pleasantly surprised to find a hand full of copies are selling to people I don't know, with little
marketing effort by me.
Conferences can also help your
book marketing and
book publicity
efforts as they are another way to spread the word
about your
book.
The commercial eBooks are from Digital Pulp Publishing, presenting a wide and eclectic array bringing independent access to the broad open
market through the
efforts of many publishers; and also great numbers of additional
books, perhaps totalling ~ 100,000 by July 4, from eBooks
About Everything.
As we've discussed,
book marketing is no longer
about lonely
book signings and time - consuming schlepps to beg every store in town to carry your
book — taking your
marketing online (while not appropriate for EVERY
book / subject matter) offers you the opportunity to reach a wide audience with only a moderate input of time and
effort.
She publishes a
book about every 7 months and is making a nice full - time living as an author because she's very proactive with
marketing her work, and she's participating in a lot of multi-author boxed sets and anthologies, as well as joint author promotional
efforts.
HarperCollins needs to create buzz
about its
books and step up its
marketing efforts.
In this 47 minute interview, we dig deep into Chris's philosophy of using Social Media to
market and sell
books, spend time talking
about matching your
marketing efforts to the reality of your writing career and spend some time talking
about social networks that aren't Facebook and Twitter.
So I can not say this enough, do your homework and be specific
about what you expect from your
book marketing efforts.
Instead of hoping that potential readers hear
about your
book, with Author Agency's
Marketing Solutions you can make an
effort to promote your
book and build an audience.
My favorite presenter at the recent Inc. 500/5000 conference was Guy Kawasaki, who offered an informative session
about cultivating and maintaining «enchantment» in your customers or clients, so perhaps this series of posts in which I summarize those points and discuss how they are applicable for us at Outskirts Press will also help you apply the information to your own entrepreneurial
efforts (starting a business, running a company or yes, even
marketing a published
book).
Two things really stand out for me here: Heather invested time and
effort to learn
about book marketing, then she worked hard to apply what she learned.
For those of you who are just starting to think
about using video in your
book marketing efforts, I thought I'd share some of what I've learned
about the PC - user hardware and software involved so that you don't have to start from scratch.
Marketing is most effective when your
efforts reach many people in your specific target audience who don't already know
about your
book.
You also need a lot of time learning
about the whole publication process; and
effort in establishing distribution channels for your
book and
marketing it.
Our services try to consolidate your
marketing efforts into one platform by offering an easy interface for you to fill in information
about you and your
books.
Early
marketing efforts should focus on the author's existing fan base, as these readers are not only easier to convince to read a
book, but more likely to become emissaries for that
book: recommending it to their friends, blogging
about it, and adding it to Goodreads lists.